Date Posted: 10th Nov 2009 at 4:20 AM

Yup. I made a new word to describe me.
I had a moment of stupidity earlier today. I recently downloaded some content off the EA website (yeah, the RIGHT way) and The Sims 2 Store Edition was automatically installed on my computer. I'm like, FTW, EAxis, I didn't knowingly ask for this ! I realized later, of course, that I needed it to be able to run the game with the objects I had just purchased....but for whatever reason, I uninstalled the game when I started having performance problems. dur.
SO of course, it removed all of my save games, and of course, I was ignorant and didn't back up my saved games before this.....I lost ALL of my content. Everything. Every last bit of it. (no surprise, right?)
I've been kicking myself for the last hour. I had been working SO HARD on my game. I had made Sims of myself, all of my friends and family, we all had nice houses and families and I had tons of custom content and loved my game oh so much....and it's all gone now. And even if I were to re-download everything...it would never be the same.
So I decided, well, why not just uninstall everything anyway? I've been curious about the Sims 3, and my computer can't handle both (I'm hardly sure it can handle Sims 3 alone....) so I did.
And realized I don't have the discs anymore. I gave them all to a friend, who has since moved out of state and stopped talking to me.
So I am now Simless until I get the money to buy The Sims 3 (won't be too long), update my drivers and various cards (my computer just isn't as awesome as I have always thought it was), and get the hang of the game. *sigh* It's a hard life, being an epi-idiot.

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Date Posted: 11th Apr 2009 at 3:35 PM

Ever go through your downloads folder and forget why you even downloaded some of the random things you have in there?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had this problem.
I mean, I sort my downloads. I've got the downloads folder split into parts by function, the furniture subfoldered into rooms, the clothes subfoldered into male and female and then by age, and I even have a place for any mods or hacks I have.
But it still gets so cluttered and messy! So here's what I'm gonna do.

I've created a separate folder on my desktop and made the appropriate subfolders necessary to sort my things. I transfered what I recognized from all of my subfolders in the downloads folder, and the stuff i don't recognize is going to be deleted when I uninstall all of my Sims 2 games. Then, I'm going to reinstall them all, toss in my new, nicely organized downloads folder and go with it.

This isn't the first time I've done this. Sometimes things just get so out of hand in my neighborhoods, what with families and this Sim is cheating on this Sim and having an affair with this one as well (I play with a lot of Family and Romance Sims ) so it's easier just to start over. But this IS the first time I've attempted this with so many downloads. Ay caramba. I'm just going to redownload all of my faves, and if I get duplicates, just override them. That way, I'll know I have the stuff I really like.
So I won't be making any houses for a while. I'm happy with the 8 I have posted (and my 2000+ downloads - thanks guys! :lovestruc ) and I'll get to a few more, maybe, before I leave.
PS: I'll be working at Cedar Point for the summer, and while I will have access to the internet, I won't be taking my computer, so I won't be able to build anything
So that's it! Hooray for my first journal entry!

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